Mike Carruthers

And that is something you should know.

When you think about your life and how luck and chance have played a role, was it good luck, bad luck, maybe a little bit of both?

You see, luck is a very big player in our lives, whether you realize it or not.

And when you pay attention to how luck works in your life, you can actually create more good luck in your life, which you're about to hear about from Mark Robert Rank.

He is a professor of social welfare at Washington University in St.

Louis and author of the book, The Random Factor, How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us.

Hi, Mark.

Welcome to Something You Should Know.

So I have always thought that luck is such a big force in almost everybody's life and a force that nobody really pays attention to.

And so I think it's important, but I'd like to know why you think it's important.

So explain the role of randomness, luck, and chance, because as you say, people don't really take it into consideration much, don't think about it much.

So how do they affect us?

And yet, I bet anybody who would just stop and think about it and think about the random events in their life, the people that came into their lives or the place they were at or something happened has had a significant, significant impact on their life and that it's happened several times.

But because by its very nature, luck and chance are luck and chance, they happen when they happen, then that's kind of the beginning and the end of it.

And then there's not much more to do other than maybe to say, so since luck and chance play a big role, get out there and have more luck and chance encounters.

So understanding that these chance events, these chance meetings, these lucky things that can happen really on a daily basis, what do we do with this?

How do we maximize this if there is a way so we have more luck?

Yeah, because although you know it may be coming, it's impossible to know what it is that's coming.

You know, like, you know, something's going to go wrong with your car one day, but you don't know if it's going to be the brakes or the, you know, the tires.

You don't know what it is, but something's going to go wrong.